The seasons run with swift feet.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Money was their God; work their religion.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?